News archive from 11 April 2013

Police have arrested a man being hunted in connection with an alleged abduction of a three-year-old girl in the Canary Islands.
The 62-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap in London, after a public appeal was launched by Thames...

Police have arrested a man being hunted in connection with an alleged abduction of a three-year-old girl in the Canary Islands.
The 62-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap in London, after a public appeal was launched by Thames...

Dembele was chosen following a meeting of the party's executive committee late on Wednesday, a senior party official told journalists.
The party's current leader and Mali's interim president, Dioncounda Traore, is prevented from contesting the poll...

THEY'VE lately been their own tribute act but Big Country are back big time, with a new album, new members... and the classic sound. Bruce Watson tells Aidan Smith about starting over without frontman Stuart Adamson
BRUCE WATSON of Big Country lives...

FOR Record Store Day Matthew Young decided to pose a question about whether music fans prefer booze or vinyl for their cash
People will happily spend £12 on a single round of beer, but it seems they’re reluctant to spend £12 on a record. Why? On 20...

DAVID Pollock dissects Margaret Thatcher's musical legacy, while Andrea Mullaney looks at our fascination with historical fiction
‘Why would one politician inspire such an outpouring when so many others have remained untouched?’
For a lady with no...

WICKER-MASKED, antler-headed, ribald but also faintly disquieting, the Armagh Rhymers inhabit whatever space they perform in - be it stage, school or city square - with an air of otherworldly authority and a lineage that reaches back to pre-Christian,...

Police have arrested a man being hunted in connection with an alleged abduction of a three-year-old girl in the Canary Islands.
The 62-year-old was arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnap in London, after a public appeal was launched by Thames...

If Manchester United's recently announced £160m training ground sponsorship deal with Aon is anything to go by, then the business of football is in a healthy state. But the Old Trafford giants have always been the exception rather than the rule, so...

MIRA Nair believes in doing her research. While planning The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Nair - a highly respected, award-winning Indian director - went to a screening of the low-budget British black comedy drama Four Lions.
She was keen to watch rising...

Sick leave leads to long-term absence from work in too many cases, the government says. It hopes a new scheme will get people off benefits and back to work much more quickly. But will it work, and will it be fair? Carl Lightbown had a very common...

A back-on-form Bernardo Bertolucci leads the charge as the 20th Italian Film Festival invades Scotland's cinemas
FEW modern Italian filmmakers have achieved the international standing of Bernardo Bertolucci, so it seems like good timing that this...

WHAT makes a killer? That's the question Antonio Campos seeks to answer in his new film, writes Alistair Harkness
ANTONIO Campos wants to get one thing straight. “Just because you make a film where a character likes a finger up his butt doesn’t mean...